Visual Imagery
When a certain text or reference causes a reader to experience a passage by forming mental images that create a visual experience of the extract.
Frost - Mending Wall Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
The visual imagery presented in the beginning of this poem seems to create a mysterious figure or force that has immense power. The images created by the lack of visual detail enhance the secrecy and ambiguity of the newly created image of whatever the 'something' is.
Shakespeare - King Lear Act II Scene ii Line 13-22 Kent
"A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of they addition."
Kent's debasement of Oswald serves to create lasting visual imagery of his hatred towards Oswald and his Lady. The many descriptions of actions and personalities serve to create a picture of a coneiving, evil, backstabbing character. Auditory Imagery
Similiar to visual imagery, except the text causes a reader to indentify or understand a passage via forming an auditory experience of the extract.
Frost - Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening The darkest evening of the year,
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The auditory imagery in this passage serves almost as an alarm to the reader, a 'wake-up call' of sorts. The sound of a shaking bell juxtaposes to the soft sweet melancholy of the previous line, creating an awakening of the speaker of the poem.
Shakespeare - King Lear Act III Scene i Lines 1-3 Lear
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow.
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenced our steepless, drowned the cocks."
Shakespeare here uses the auditory imagery of a howling storm to incite chaos and madness into his words and actions, helping Shakespeare to demonstrate the rage and insanity that Lear feels in this moment of the play.
When a certain text or reference causes a reader to experience a passage by forming mental images that create a visual experience of the extract.
Frost - Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
The visual imagery presented in the beginning of this poem seems to create a mysterious figure or force that has immense power. The images created by the lack of visual detail enhance the secrecy and ambiguity of the newly created image of whatever the 'something' is.
Shakespeare - King Lear Act II Scene ii Line 13-22
Kent
"A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of they addition."
Kent's debasement of Oswald serves to create lasting visual imagery of his hatred towards Oswald and his Lady. The many descriptions of actions and personalities serve to create a picture of a coneiving, evil, backstabbing character.
Auditory Imagery
Similiar to visual imagery, except the text causes a reader to indentify or understand a passage via forming an auditory experience of the extract.
Frost - Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
The darkest evening of the year,
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The auditory imagery in this passage serves almost as an alarm to the reader, a 'wake-up call' of sorts. The sound of a shaking bell juxtaposes to the soft sweet melancholy of the previous line, creating an awakening of the speaker of the poem.
Shakespeare - King Lear Act III Scene i Lines 1-3
Lear
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow.
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenced our steepless, drowned the cocks."
Shakespeare here uses the auditory imagery of a howling storm to incite chaos and madness into his words and actions, helping Shakespeare to demonstrate the rage and insanity that Lear feels in this moment of the play.